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Business Owners, Does This Sound Suspicious?
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mobilehaathi
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We (buyer and seller) met on a forum and I requested a middleman. We agreed on a highly trusted middleman on the forum and he added him to the chat. There were two usernames that popped up on Skype, which is a common tactic. He added the wrong one. He seemed completely legitimate as a middleman too. There's no way the seller was apart of it. His Bitcoin was taken and my PayPal funds were taken, both now in the hands of the fake middleman now.
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We were both playing it safe. But the mindset when a middleman gets involved is "I'm protected, I can't get scammed".
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Scepticalscribe
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Gosh. Words fail me. The 'wrong' Skype name chosen, apparently by accident, when two, equally similar ones are listed there? Ah, I see.
Appreciation and enjoyment of theatre is said to be based on the concept of 'the willing suspension of disbelief'. In other words, you know, logically, internally, that what you are seeing is, or are, a person or people pretending to be somebody else but you tell yourself that you must believe they are the person they are pretending to be or it won't make sense to you. Sometimes, sadly, despite willingly suspending your disbelief in the whole process, it still doesn't make much sense. This whole thread is a bit like that.
Reading this thread this far.....this far, up until now, has left my facial expression somewhat pained; sort of, not unlike that depicted by the Norwegian artist, Edvard Munch, when he painted a picture (well, he painted four versions of it, actually) which he called 'The Scream'.
Appreciation and enjoyment of theatre is said to be based on the concept of 'the willing suspension of disbelief'. In other words, you know, logically, internally, that what you are seeing is, or are, a person or people pretending to be somebody else but you tell yourself that you must believe they are the person they are pretending to be or it won't make sense to you. Sometimes, sadly, despite willingly suspending your disbelief in the whole process, it still doesn't make much sense. This whole thread is a bit like that.
Reading this thread this far.....this far, up until now, has left my facial expression somewhat pained; sort of, not unlike that depicted by the Norwegian artist, Edvard Munch, when he painted a picture (well, he painted four versions of it, actually) which he called 'The Scream'.
..and in what amounts to about 25 years of being exposed to shipping in one way or another, with a vast amount of years dealing with container loads, LTL, a few pallets, odd shaped stuff, etc.
I have -never- once, -ever- heard of ANY kind of limitation on what quantity of units I can deliver -anywhere- based on anything other than the actual facility itself where the delivery is taking place.
If they can unload one pallet, they can unload 10 of them. That's what they're paid to do. Deliver stuff. If there's a surcharge for lift gate, there's a surcharge for it. But once the pallet is off the truck, on the ground, the delivery vendor has done it's job.
There's no ordinance restricting deliveries. What if you bought a swing set that came on six pallets? Some do. "nope, sorry, you gotta bring two of them to one each of my neighbors."
Two pallet limit? Fine. Deliver two today, in another couple days.. since it will take you that long to break it down and re-label for shipment, because if not, why is the "limit" an issue in the first place, since you could just be using freight forwarding, which any volume seller knows full well that they can deliver straight to the dock of whoever is the next shipper.
Which brings me to the $900/mo UPS holding fee? That's another -never- heard of it. The only holding UPS does is fulfillment. As an example, ever wonder how you can order a phone from Sprint until insane hours of the evening and still get it in the morning? Because the phones are actually stocked at the UPS hub, pre-boxed for individual dispatch. Slap a label on it, inject the parcel into automation, just like if it got there on the plane from the pickup location. Otherwise.. anything else, they're not in that business. They'll accept freight, and forward it. When it gets there.
They don't want to store your stuff. They want to deliver it. They are not called United Parcel Storage.
Selling/buying an intangible, completely anonymous product designed so that it cannot be tracked with someone you met on a forum. What could possibly go wrong?
Shrink
macrumors G3
You forgot the High School Security Officer who is a partner in a 40 store chain in Poland.
mobilehaathi
macrumors G3
He is a rich eccentric looking to have an ethnographic experience in the suburbs of Philadelphia! And maybe making some business on the side....
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